> I'd be interested in comments on the efficacy of that carrier. I
> bought one last year, anticipating using it on a car without twobar (I
> already had a towbar fitted carrier); I did a test fitting to the car
> --- seemed rather fiddly and maybe too many parts to forget to do
> up 
I bought one of those cycle carriers, it works a treat. Its a little
wobbly if you dont have a wide side attachment point area (missus car
has a very narrow boot area and is a coupe so its a bit fiddly to get
stable, mines a very wide hatchback coupe so it fits a treat except it
clobbers the spoiler if I dont pad it out properly). 6 straps, two go
to the top of the boot/hatch, two to the sides and two underneath -
thats your lot. The top 4 hold on by using dumbells that go into the
car and you shut the hatch on them, the bottom two hook under the
bumper on mine. I figured they might leak in a little where the straps
go through the seals but it doesnt seem to even with heavy rain. Holds
2 hefty full sus MTBs fine and dandy and keeps the mud out of our
cars. Also means we can use the missus car (45mpg) instead of mine
(17mpg) to get to distant offroad trails which is a bit more green -
it was a nightmare trying to get 2 MTBs into the boot of a megane
coupe before so we used mine instead.
